VALUE OF THE KITCHEN GARDEN 



is required, it will be well to buy it by the ounce. 

 By first measuring the ground and then studying 

 those catalogues which give the quantity of seed 

 required to plant a given area as an hundred feet 

 of drill one can estimate very closely the exact 

 amount required of any variety. Of course where 

 this is done one must calculate on purchasing 

 good seed of reliable dealers, planting it properly 

 and giving the plants suitable culture after they 

 are up. One must not sow it in any haphazard way 

 and expect good results. 



It is very rarely that one family will find use for 

 all the products of a garden, be it ever so small, 

 and, if one is so inclined, the surplus will find ready 

 sale among one's neighbours. Especially is this 

 the case with the early plants from the hotbeds. 

 A very good plan, when one wishes a great vari- 

 ety of vegetables and has but a limited amount 

 of room in which to grow them, is to arrange with 

 a neighbour to co-operate in the garden work and 

 each take certain things. His land, perhaps, may 

 seem more suited for, or he have more knowledge 

 of the culture of certain plants; then let him grow 

 of these enough for both gardens, while you un- 

 dertake those which he does not grow. This 



